How To Store Painting Supplies

Whether you have open shelving to enclose bookshelves or a cabinet to dedicate to organizing your craft supplies and paint the storage pieces that we used and the way we organized could be done almost anywhere.

How to store painting supplies. The ideal humidity to store artwork is 40-50 with a temperature between 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit 21-24 degrees Celsius. See you after the jump. Anything with about a quarter of a gallon or less left over gets transferred to a small mason jar for touch ups and the rest gets disposed of.

Bucket and Hook Storage. Cut a sheet of. In most cases I was able to stack two bins to maximize the use of my vertical space.

This post has been moved and updated on my new website. How to Maintain the Right Climate. This is part two of my studio tour where Im going to show you up close how I organize my finished paintings and colored pencil artwork including powder ble.

From paint to all of your funky scissors theres a place for it all. Severe climates can cause cracked paint warping yellowing of paper and mold growth. Glassine is a material used by archivists to preserve unframed artwork and documents.

Keep a used paintbrush or roller cover fresh between coats or even overnight by wrapping it in plastic wrap or heavy-duty aluminum foil suggests Stimpson. Related articles A Retreat for Women for the Soul for the Creative 40 Days of Painting Countdown. Storage Place the jars on a shelf up high away from food and drink and out of reach from children.

Paper Towel Ribbon Holder. For smaller items like paint brushes foam brushes scrapers and stirrers I picked up a few of these clear containers to corral them so that they could be easily accessible. Andy Vinson of Loch Key Productions.